{"id":2461,"date":"2016-04-26T12:39:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2016-04-26T12:41:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:41:07","slug":"trees-torture-and-the-tr-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2016\/04\/26\/trees-torture-and-the-tr-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees, torture and the TR Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

At New College Library we’ve been busy cataloguing the TR Collection, one of the Funk Donation funded projects, and over 1500 items have been catalogued so far. Believed to have once been kept in the Tower Room at New College Library (which is the origin of the shelfmark) this collection contains many early and interesting items. We’ve chosen three of them\u00a0to put on display in the New College Library<\/a> Hall, and using our new Special Collections scanner to capture images from them.<\/p>\n

Ursin\u2019s Arboretum Biblicum<\/em>, a guide to trees in the Bible, is a richly illustrated early botanical work.<\/p>\n

\"Ursin,

Ursin, Johann Heinrich (1608-1667). Joh. Henrici Ursini Arboretum Biblicum : in quo arbores & fructices passim in S. literis occurrentes \u2026 Nuremberg : Johannem Danielem Tauberum, 1699. New College Library TR.1123<\/p><\/div>\n

\"TR.1123c\"<\/p>\n

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This work by Scottish Covenanters James Renwick and Alexander Shields is of particular interest because of its inscriptions. These indicate that it was gifted by Sir Walter Scott (1771 \u20131832) to Scottish antiquary and artist Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781?\u20131851) and later belonged to Adam C(leghorn) Welch. Professor Adam Cleghorn Welch (1864-1943) was a minister and\u00a0Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament\u00a0at New College.His portrait now hangs in the New College Library staff offices.<\/p>\n\n\t\t